Past Programs
Animals - 2002
Getting to Know Fido - Animal Minds
01/12/2002
Can we ever know the minds of animals? Any attempt runs the risk of anthropomorphising - projecting our own human traits and experiences onto them. But perhaps anthropomorphism is just what's needed, if we're to uncover their mental machinery. One of the world's top animal behaviour researchers argues that we need to better 'mind' animals - to both appreciate their cognitive complexities, and to look out for them more thoughtfully.
